by Tom | Feb 22, 2006 | Reading
I saw this photo mentioned in LbL and it gave me quite a shock. The more I look at it, the more I think it is Caroline (but the coat sleeves look wrong, but what would I know). Freaky.* Most memorable tube experience?Only I suppose because I immortalised it, but when...
by Tom | Feb 22, 2006 | IT
MoonEdit looks useful – it’s a multi-user, multi-platform collaborative text editor – with simultaneous edit goodness.
by Tom | Feb 22, 2006 | Reading
All the tube maps you could ever want in one place together. I love the German one (we live at Bogenweg).
by Tom | Feb 21, 2006 | Reading
A taxpayers lobbying group has an interesting model of how a flat tax might work. What does the quote suggest – we have an infinite tolerance for financial pain?Remarkably, the UK Treasury’s model of the economy, as well as those operated by private...
by Tom | Feb 20, 2006 | Reading
There aren’t many shows currently available, but a useful place to book your free tickets to various recordings. Oh yes, and Chris A is top of the list, currently.
by Tom | Jan 31, 2006 | Government
I absolutely agree. Use constraint to help you think about where innovation may lie. It’s one of the biggest challenges to government (certainly in the UK). There are so many initiatives with badly-drawn and / or conflicting delivery targets that the will to...
by Tom | Jan 31, 2006 | Reading
Private Information Retrieval asks an interesting (to me) question:Can you make queries from a database without the database knowing what you want ?.The answer is, of couse, that you can, but you have to be clever about it. This has a strong bearing on how Google and...
by Tom | Jan 31, 2006 | Government
Philips Chief Technology Officer for Electronics has some interesting comments around innovations:if you begin to look more recently, then you begin to see a mix of innovations, which are technology innovations with innovations that are much consumer centric, or...
by Tom | Jan 31, 2006 | IT
Give it a try – so long as you are validated genuine Windows! The promise of RSS consumption and tabs is a nice one, but I’m loving Performancing on Firefox, so it will be a big, big job to convince me to change back.
by Tom | Jan 31, 2006 | Reading
The Sullivan nod is genius. I’m going to try it.
